Articles tagged user-authentication
Developers Guide to GPG and YubiKey
Setting up a new YubiKey as a second factor is easy—your browser walks you through the entire process. However, setting up a YubiKey to sign your Git commits and Secure Shell (SSH) authentication is a very different experience. In this post, I’ll walk through configuring a YubiKey and highlight some of the things I’ve learned along the way. I’ve used GPG for years, but it didn’t really "click" for me until I sat down and...
Add User Authentication to Your Spring Boot App in 15 Minutes
Note: In May 2025, the Okta Integrator Free Plan replaced Okta Developer Edition Accounts, and the Okta CLI was deprecated. We preserved this post for reference, but the instructions no longer work exactly as written. Replace the Okta CLI commands by manually configuring Okta following the instructions in our Developer Documentation. When’s the last time you had fun building a web application? We love Spring Boot because it makes it super easy to build a...